Seasonal Barbecue Recipes and Stories of Live Fire Traditions Old and New

Live Fire

Hot Dinners Best Cookbooks of 2022Over 100 seasonal and achievable barbecue recipes celebrating the common thread of live fire cooking in cuisines from around the world. In this homage to live fire traditions, award-winning food writer Helen Graves (aka @foodstories) showcases the very best of barbecue throughout the seasons. Featuring seasonal produce including lots of vegetables alongside meat and fish, Helen also interviews chefs and home cooks from the multiple diaspora communities cooking with live fire in the UK, exploring the techniques that define and unite the way we grill. Helen&rsquo;s talent for combining evocative writing with bold flavours makes this a truly immersive, practical book that will have even the barbecue novice running for the coals. From chicken wings with tahini and za&#39;atar and pork cheek tacos to grilled baby artichokes with an anchovy dip, a coleslaw for every season and a killer smoked cherry and whisky butterscotch sundae, every recipe in Live Fire is achievable as it is enticing.

This will make you into a year-round barbecuer. Just the right amount of information, and absolutely delicious recipes.

This book is a firecracker; a testament to Helen&rsquo;s knowledge, experience, curiosity and appetite. But what I love most about Live Fire is that rather than seeing cooking over fire as a specialty subject, or something for special occasions, it reframes it simply, as cooking.

Helen&#39;s cooking style is quite extraordinary. I know very few people who can combine that kind of firecracker creativity with the ability to produce dish after dish to make you issue small moans of desire. Her talent for food is, literally and figuratively, on fire.

Sunday Times restaurant critic Marina O'Loughlin

I&rsquo;ve always thought of Helen as the queen of barbecue but she also has a real ability to tell a story and capture the visual side of anything she writes about. A fantastic book for all lovers of live fire.

It&#39;s wonderfully written and full of exceptionally good, user-friendly recipes from all over the world... I am very for women reclaiming the barbecue.

Helen Graves is a freelance food and travel writer and recipe developer based in South East London. She is author of the award-winning website Food Stories and the editor of Pit magazine, a celebration of live fire cooking lauded by national newspaper food critics Jay Rayner and Marina O&rsquo;Loughlin, and shortlisted for Launch of the Year at the Stack Magazine Awards 2017.

Helen Graves

&#39;Graves&rsquo; creative ideas and attention to every aspect of the barbecue (including those all-essential drinks and nibbles) make this book a summer essential.&#39;

&#39;About flavour as much as it&rsquo;s about barbecuing... a book absolutely packed with ideas.&#39;

Barbecue Recipes for Year-Round Feasting

Make impressive entertaining look and feel effortless with these knock-out barbecue recipes. 
 
 This is the ultimate go-to guide for entertaining &ndash; you&#39;ll find 20 menus, each featuring a drink, nibbles, a dip, the platter, a side, some extra carbs and a dessert. All customisable, all incredibly delicious. 
 
 With recipe chapters divided by season, you&#39;ll find go-to grilling ideas and menu suggestions for every occasion, whatever the weather. Honeydew and Jalape&ntilde;o Sours, Charred Tomato 7-layer Dip, Sticky Agrodolce Sausages, Curried Brown Butter Potato Salad, Grilled and Chilled Peppers with Harissa, Pineapple and Lime, and Tequila Macerated Strawberries are just a handful of the dishes you&#39;ll find in this selection of showstoppers. 
 
 Fire up your barbecue, fill your glass and invite your friends &ndash; grilling has never been so stylish.

Helen Graves

Praise for BBQ Days, BBQ Nights

The book of the summer

'Graves’ creative ideas and attention to every aspect of the barbecue (including those all-essential drinks and nibbles) make this book a summer essential.'

'About flavour as much as it’s about barbecuing... a book absolutely packed with ideas.'

The book of the summer

'Graves’ creative ideas and attention to every aspect of the barbecue (including those all-essential drinks and nibbles) make this book a summer essential.'

'About flavour as much as it’s about barbecuing... a book absolutely packed with ideas.'

The book of the summer

'Graves’ creative ideas and attention to every aspect of the barbecue (including those all-essential drinks and nibbles) make this book a summer essential.'

'About flavour as much as it’s about barbecuing... a book absolutely packed with ideas.'

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